Bitcoin Price Graph

Gulnar Hasnain, a Green party candidate for the House of Commons in the London constituency of Vauxhall, managed to raise 650 pounds for her campaign with bitcoin donations. Satoshi’s supporters come not only from the UK, but from the other side of the ocean as well.

Ripple has published its comments on the Federal Reserve Strategy report for improving the US payment system that was issued today. The company welcomes the Fed’s conclusion that the country’s payment infrastructure is due for an upgrade and believes it already has the solution.

The payment processor and bitcoin wallet Coinbase will launch a US-based bitcoin exchange called Lunar, which has already been approved by state financial regulators in half of the country, including California and New York, according to the Wall Street Journal publication.

The PayPal subsidiary has announced the launch of a software development kit (SDK) called ‘v.zero’, billed as an open payment platform. The private beta enables US merchants to accept payments in bitcoin through its integration with Coinbase.

Brothers Winklevoss have introduced Gemini, a New York-based bitcoin exchange aiming to promote the spread of virtual currencies in the US. The new platform is intended to be fully compliant to Benjamin Lawsky's BitLicense regulation and linked exclusively with American regulated banks.